Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The wives-some inherited from his predecessor, some the gift of subjects eager to display loyalty, and some simply picked out by the monarch himself-were more than companions to King Lukengu. They sang his praises, danced at his orders, embroidered the exquisite raffia tapestries on the walls of his...
King Lukengu's troubles began last summer when the Congo became a republic and the new provincial government of Kasai decreed that it was "undemocratic" for one man to keep 800 wives in a life of semi-serfdom. "We have our freedom now," said Kasai President Barthelemy Mukenge, 35...
The man chosen to break the news to the King was David Mputukanga, a member of the subject Bakete tribe, who obviously relished the task. Escorted by a group of impressively armed soldiers,
Mputukanga toured the outlying villages, where the King stabled more than half his wives, called the women in and asked if they wanted their freedom. To a woman, they did. There remained the 350 wives at the royal village of Mushenge itself. Waiting till the King set out on one...
Throughout the land of the Bakuba, village after village jumped with excitement as the girls celebrated their freedom. At one hamlet, twelve miles from King Lukengu's seat, Mbawota, 25, a royal wife since childhood and mother of one of Lukengu's many sons, threw her arms wide...